Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry afterwards because their investigation by the said method did not furnish an actual demonstration. But it… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world. — Archimedes Copy Share Image
“Give me a place outside the earth on which to rest my lever, and I will move the world. By Archimedes” — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes. — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse! — Archimedes Copy Share Image
